Off the wire
• Turkey's economy slows below previous forecast amid fluctuations  • Chinese national swimming championships results   • Chongqing Lifan beat Yanbian 2-1 in CSL  • Across China: Chinese folk paintings add color to G20  • Unemployment rate in Albania drops to 15.5 pct in Q2  • Chinese video surveillance firm to establish office in Kenya  • China manufacturer delivers components for new Boeing airplanes  • UN Security Council to hold closed meeting on DPRK nuclear test  • Gambian students leave for China for studies  • Morocco says recently busted IS-linked cell's attack attempt  
You are here: 　 Home

Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Sept. 9

Xinhua, September 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Friday that it successfully conducted a nuclear warhead explosion test at the northern nuclear test ground, the fifth by the country since 2006.

The test aimed to judge the power of a newly developed nuclear warhead, said the DPRK Nuclear Weapons Institute. (DPRK-Nuclear Test)

- - - -

MADRID -- At least four people were killed and 47 others injured after the derailment of a train in O Porrino, close to the city of Pontevedra in the region of Galicia in northwest Spain.

The accident happened at 9:30 a.m. local time as the train with 63 people aboard (61 passengers plus the train driver and a guard) was approaching the station of O Porrino where it was not scheduled to stop. (Spain-Train Crash)

- - - -

ANKARA -- Turkey will continue the Euphrates Shield Operation in northern Syria to create a safe zone and to fight against terrorist organizations, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told press Friday.

Turkey's priority in the border city of Jarablus is to ensure the security of the border, Yildirim stressed, adding that Turkish forces will help locals in northern Syria, who were forced to fled, go back and settle in their homeland. (Turkey-Syria)

- - - -

NEW DELHI -- At least 18 people were killed and 30 others injured after a private bus fell off a bridge in the eastern Indian state of Odisha Friday, a police official said.

"The incident took place in the state's Angul district when the private bus fell off the Manitri bridge into a 50-feet deep area after the driver lost control of the speeding vehicle," he said on condition of anonymity. (India-Bus-Mishap) Endi